Self-healing of indentation damage in Ti₂AlC MAX phase ceramics

Although the crack-healing capacity of Ti₂AlC ceramics has been sufficiently studied, the ability of Ti₂AlC to self-heal large-scale damage, such as foreign object damage (FOD), remains unknown. This paper investigates the self-healing ability of Ti₂AlC ceramics with large-scale damage (∼1000 μm in diameter)....